The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-22

lie mad fought the bill by sections, and in
the aggregate had ridiculed it, denounced
it and voted against it. The executive had
only acted in the line of the Senator's argu-
message, defined, and sharply defined the
issue between the two great
parties, and he Vest endorsed
that message from the beginning to the end
He was prepared to go into the canvass
upon it, and whatever the result might be,
he declared now, publicly, that if the Presi-
dent had done nothing less than write that
message, he had proven himself to be an
honest, brave, patriotic man, and worthy of
the leadership of any party that ever existed
in the history of this country.
MIR. Teller severely criticised the Presl-
dent for endeavoring to create public alarm
IL order to carry ont his pet scheme for re-
ducing the tariff. He argued that there
was not so much surplus in the Treasury as
should necessitate any haste, or cause any
fright or alarm.
Mr. Stewart was satisfied from the dis
cussion to-day that Congress ought not to
adjourn for the holidays. As TO the sur
plus, he was sure it would continue to be
locked up if the only remedy was
that suggested by the President
reduction Of the tariff. The issue presented
to the American people by the President
was whether it would stop doing its own
work and hire it out. Nations, as we'll as
individuals, got rich by doing their own
work. For his own part he would regulate
the matter not by reducing but by raising
the tar&.
ABSURDITY OF SITTING.
Mr.. Allison said that the Appropriations
Committee had reported the resolution be-
cause he believed the general sentiment to
be in favor of holiday adjournment. The
House had passed the resolution without
even division. The Senate could not pro-
mote public interests by remaining in ses-
sion while the House was in its
present unorganized condition. Revenue
measures had to originate in the House
and from the beginning of 1885, till now.
no revenue measure had come from the
House, and none would come, certainly be-
fore January 4. Therefore, he did not see
that public interests could be advanced or
promoted by refusing the House the ad-
journment which it asked.
Mr.. Butler expressed contempt for the
disgusting spectacle which the Senate was
presenting the affectation and hypoc-
risy exhibited to-day. There was not a
Senator who did not know that alldhat was
said about the Senate remaining in session
was absolute bosh and hypocrisy. 1t was
the idlest, fiimsiest, shallowest hypocrisy he
had ever witnessed.
Mr.. Plumb resented the position of public
censor assumed by the Senator from South
Carolina.
sHERMAN's BUNcoMB.
Mr.. Sherman agreed with Mr.. Butler
that it was hardly worth while for the
Senate to deny the House the privileges of a
holiday adjournment, but he did not
agree with him as to the
character of to-day's debate. On the con
trary he was very much interested in
it, 1t had brought to the attention of the
Senate the folly of some features of the
Presidents message, the folly of the Presi-
dents endeavoring to create a scare and
alarm about the condition of the country,
because, fortunately there was a surplus OF
S55, 900 in the Treasury. If it were true
that there was such a state Of alarm as was
expressed by the President, certainly the
Democratic House ought not to adjourn
over the holidays. He did not believe, how.
ever, that there was any such occasion for
alarm. He believed that the language OF
the Pr sident was entirely too strong. II
was right and proper for the Republican
Senators to call attention to the folly of the
House of Representatives adJourning with
out even an organization. There were
no committees appointed in that
body, no preparations made tc
meet the great peril spoken of by the Presi-
dent. The surplus of s55,0OO,O6o was less
than was in the Treasury at other periods
of the present administration. He thought
it but reasonable and right that the hum
bug by which it was sought to frighten the
country should be punctured, exploded OF
explained away. The question would doubt
less have to be approached in temperate
and fair manner He therefore did not re-
gret the speeches today on both sides of the
question. They were very good speeches.
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